Policemen attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have arrested 28 suspected miscreants and 15 illegal street traders at various locations around Afrika Shrine, Alausa, Ikeja.

Chairman of the taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this in a statement by the agency’s head of public affairs, Adebayo Taofiq, on Sunday.

Mr Egbeyemi said the raid was due to the nefarious acts within the vicinity of the Afrika Shrine which presented negative image to tourists and residents of Lagos.

“Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, over the weekend, raided all streets within Central Business District including surroundings of the ‘African Shrine’, Alausa, Ikeja.

“The enforcement operations became imperative following complaints from members of the public about the criminal activities of miscreants and environmental nuisance of illegal street traders around the Shrine,” he said.

According to the chairman, the night operation was carried out around spots where drugs like Tramadol, Codeine, Skunk, marijuana, Illegal liquor and assorted food are sold, Igbere TV reports.

“These consumable and non-consumable items are freely sold on the streets in defiance of security agencies and government authority,” he said.

Egbeyemi maintained that the enforcement operations would be a continuous exercise in line with the vision of the present administration to rid the state of street urchins and criminals.

“The Lagos State Government has vowed to sustain the security onslaught on all areas identified as criminal hideouts and hard drug outlets across the state, especially within the metropolis,” he said.


One of those arrested, Tunde Babalola, who was allegedly caught with a bag of substance suspected to be Indian hemp, was said to have confessed he had been selling hard drugs for eight years.

Mr Babalola reportedly said he makes an average profit between N60,000 and N100,000 weekly from customers around Obalende, Akala, Mushin, Bariga and Ikeja.

Another trader, Abike Adeyemi, said that she pays N1,900 every week to a representative of Ikeja Local Government from the sale of addictive substances around the shrine.

Egbeyemi said that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Zubairu Muazu, has directed that all those arrested be immediately prosecuted.

https://www.qed.ng/police-swoop-on-afrika-shrine-arrest-suspected-drug-sellers/

Everything wrong goes on in the Afrikan Shrine but we've been misguided to see the place as a heritage site.
Governor Sanwo-Olu should just bulldoze it.

MOgbe

Mere hustlers...

na wah o

Is it possible make people no Bazz for shrine??


Shrine, the only legal spot to smoke igbo inside Lagos.



Fela did that for us!


Don't trample on Abami eda's legacy


@Op, stop misleading people, the raid was made AROUND the shrine, not INSIDE the shrine....

NwaAmaikpe:



Everything wrong goes on in the Afrikan Shrine but we've been misguided to see the place as a heritage site.
Governor Sanwo-Olu should just bulldoze it.

Fake news Nwafor, there wasn't any raid by Task force.

I don't know why I have this kinda Shrine in my country and I'd still be loosing money to Bet9ja...

Anyways, Let me just say a Happy Sunday to seniorman NwaAmaikpe!!!

These ones done tire for life

ok

Those drug sellers are like hydra you chop off a head 3 sprouts out!!
Look at these elderly folks all in the name of making a living!!
Those older women must be the ones selling skushis

Wuzyurdaddy:




Fake news Nwafor, there wasn't any raid by Task force.

They didn't raid inside the Shrine. They raided around it.

Nothing dey pa. Life goes on normal normal within the main Shrine. Oga Femi siddon for ground kampe.

I been think say insurance cover that place..how come.
but on a serious note my brother.. go there at night and you will pity the Nigerian youths even girls gosh.... junkies everywhere. na wa oo

Naija police !

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Na wah oooooo, wahala everywhere

All the criminals are even women. Babalawo be using gulible women to commit crime just as pastors use gullible women to satisfy their lust.

Please let's bundle them, put them all inside Air peace flight and send them all to South Africa so they xenophobia them. abi I talk am well?

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It's a pity

Hmmm

Did they knw whr dey stepped into?as d word implies FELA SHRINE,I wash my hands out of dis case my lord

Afonja and cheap drug trade

GOFRONT:
I don't know why I have this kinda Shrine in my country and I'd still be loosing money to Bet9ja...

Anyways, Let me just say a Happy Sunday to seniorman NwaAmaikpe!!!

I dey tell u my guy....au I go dey loose to bet9ja

Thank God they have been arrested

They can only raid outside shrine which they have been doing for quite some time now.

May be the people selling inside the shrine might even set those street sellers up self

We don see you,,,police are working

We know those people must have returned to their base

.good,

One of those arrested, Tunde
Babalola, who was allegedly
caught with a bag of
substance suspected to be
Indian hemp, was said to
have confessed he had been selling hard drugs for eight
years.


I thought only igbos sells drugs and destroy nigeria image.

I can bet all those arrested 28 person are all yorubas and few hausafulanis,if there was to be one Igbo among them,the caption would have be difference,
eg:IGBO DRUG LORD ARRESTED ALONG 27 OTHERS.

Sounds very fake